Commonwealth v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reaffirming the principle that evidence of the potential bias of the witness which, because of the logical nexus between the prior sexual activity and the testimony to be presented, would be exculpatory of a defendant, implicates the defendant’s right of confrontation and must be admitted
• reaffirming the principle that evidence of the potential bias of the witness which, because of the logical nexus between the prior sexual activity and the testimony to be presented, would be exculpatory of a defendant, implicates the defendant's right of confrontation and must be admitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-07· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Wall
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-02-26· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Boyles
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-29· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Nieves
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-09-26· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Gaddis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-22· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. K.S.F.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-08· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Eck
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-30· cited 35×
• Grant v. Demskie
  S.D. New York· 1999-11-17· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-11-27· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Berkowitz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-22· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Appenzeller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-16· cited 16×
• People v. Parks
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2009-06-05· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Reefer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-05-01· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Sanders
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-25· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Ruggiano
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-12-13· cited 2×
• Com. v. K.S.F.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-08
• Commonwealth v. Canfield
  Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas· 1992-10-30
• Commonwealth v. Malave
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 1994-08-12
• Commonwealth v. Battista
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 1995-04-19

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Commonwealth v. Durst
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-05-30· cited 206×
• Commonwealth v. Brady
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-26· cited 180×
• Clinebell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-04-22· cited 143×
• Commonwealth v. Black
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-11· cited 102×
• Miller v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1989-09-06· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. Cargo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-23· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Majorana
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-23· cited 70×
• State v. Carver
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-03-19· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Reynolds
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-12· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Lee
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-29· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-20· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Haight
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-22· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Troy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-01-13· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Haight
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-07· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Coia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-17· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Kesting
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-12-28· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-28· cited 8×